The Cell Matrix

Miscellaneous News

We just sent a new newsletter to both the standard and the API mailing lists. We may switch more to using this weblog instead of the newsletters, but we'll see how things go. The To: header reads “To: Cell Matrix Mailing List” but some mail clients seem to translate that to something like “To: Cell@localhost, Matrix@localhost, Mailing@localhost, List@localhost” We've seen a few clients bounce this back, apparently thinking it looks like spam. Anyway, if you haven't received this latest newsletter and think you should have (or would like to sign up), please let us know.

MOD 88 Export Issues

We have a customer for the MOD 88 in China, but before we can ship it, we need to go through the proper export control procedures. This has been a slow process, but is starting to move more quickly now. Hopefully we'll receive the information we need in the next few weeks. At least one of the components in the MOD 88 is export controlled, but I think we qualify for a Licence Exception. As usual, this first case is the most difficult. Once we've been through the process once, it should be quicker next time.

Dynamic DNS

Just a note here for anyone working with dynamic IP mapping – we've been using dyndns.org to map a fixed domain name to a dynamic IP. This seems to work great. The service seems reliable, and it's free. They have recommend software (“DynDNS Updater” by Kana Solution, also free) for updating your dynamic IP information at their site automatically. Apparently, some routers don't play according to dyndns' rules, and register updates even when the IP hasn't changed. This can get your account closed, as it's considered a violation of dyndns' abuse policy. But the software solution seems to work fine so far. It scrapes your current (real) IP from the router itself, compares to what it thinks your IP was, and updates dyndns when it changes.

posted by Nick Macias @ 7:39 AM